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Installing the Beta and switching back to Stable

You can install this new Beta version or switch back to the current Stable version by changing updater channels.

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@JeremyKolb said:
None of the release notes are up yet so we have no idea what's changed.

iOS release notes are there, but Android ones seems to be missing.

But I wonder why the formatting and how it's all is presented is different between the iOS and Android release notes. The style is nicer on the Android page, but the iOS page specifies release too, which is much better (Xamarin.iOS 9.8.2 (Service Release 1))

@BrendanZagaeski Also, the release notes state that 4.1.0.550 of Xamarin VS is the released version for this release. However, on the Xamarin VS changelog page, it says that 4.1.1 is part of Cycle 7 Service Release 0.
4.1.1 looks like a higher version than 4.1.0.550, so this looks very odd.

By chance I came across the CS0433 "exists in both" conflict for types in Mono.Android and System.Drawing myself while testing another issue. I am filing a bug report it now. I will post another update with the bug number in a moment.

The conflicts between Mono.CSharp and mscorlibmight have the same underlying cause, but if it's simple to minimize the test case that demonstrates that other conflict and attach it on a new (optionally private) bug report, that could be a could extra test case to have on file. Thanks!

I have now filed the CS0433 "exists in both" conflict for types in Mono.Android and System.Drawing:

42726: (Windows only) "error CS0433: The type 'System.Drawing.SizeF' exists in both ... Mono.Android ... and ... System.Drawing.Primitives" and similar errors for other types in System.Drawing when building an Android app project that references a PCL project. Temporary workaround: Delete the newly added facade assembly that is causing the conflicts:

Anyone able to get the BETA refresh to install? Xamarin.Mac fails to download 2.8.2.22 so I can't get anything to install. I guess I could find the temp download folder and download all that has downloaded successfully come to think of it. It would be nice if the release notes linked to each download file so they could be installed manually if needed. As well as the Xam site dashboard have a channel picker with manual download links.

Supposedly this is stable channel. Can someone at Xamarin give us a status report? Is this a real update? What does it do/fix? Is it even safe to install given nothing else seems to say it even exists?